Wolf von Wolff
Harald Artur Wolf Wolff (* 10 January 1824 in Duben , † 8. July 1900 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer, prosecutor and Senate President at the Supreme Court .
Life
origin
He comes from the noble von Wolff family in 1786 . His parents were the later Prussian Lieutenant General Karl von Wolff (1785–1873) and his wife Dorothea Annette Sophie Friederike Georgine, née Countess von Hardenberg (born January 11, 1796; † March 25, 1872).
Career
Wolff attended the Roßleben monastery school until 1842 and studied law at the University of Bonn . 1845 was the year he was sworn in to the Prussian sovereign and Wolff became an auscultator . In 1847 he became an assessor at the Supreme Court and from 1851 a court assessor at the court in Finsterwalde and the district courts in Sorau and Frankfurt. In 1854 he became a public prosecutor's assistant in Frankfurt. In 1856 he was appointed public prosecutor in Landsberg an der Warthe . In 1859 he was transferred to Küstrin , in 1862 to Danzig . In 1866 he was promoted to senior public prosecutor in Königsberg . In 1867 he became crown attorney in Celle and two years later came to the upper tribunal in Königsberg as attorney general. From 1879 he was a lawyer in Leipzig . In 1886 he came to the Reichsgericht as President of the Senate of the III. Criminal senate . In this capacity, Wolff was appointed to the Real Privy Council in 1895 with the title of excellence and in the same year the law faculty of the University of Leipzig awarded him the honorary doctorate of Dr. iur. In 1897 he retired.
literature
- Karl Gunkel : 200 years of legal life in Hanover. Festschrift commemorating the founding of the Hanover Higher Appeal Court in Celle on October 14, 1711, Hanover 1911, p. 408.
- Adolf Lobe : Fifty Years of the Reich Court on October 1, 1929. Berlin 1929, p. 341, 400.
- Rainer Paetau (edit.): The Minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Vol. 5. In: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Acta Borussica . New episode. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2004, ISBN 3-487-11002-4 , p. 401 ( Online ( Memento from January 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ); PDF 2.28 MB).
- Marcelli Janecki : Handbook of the Prussian Nobility . Volume 2, 1893, p. 611.
Individual evidence
- ^ Anton Bettelheim (ed.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 5, Berlin 1903, list of dead 1900, 126 * .
- ^ Album of the students of Roßleben Abbey from 1742–1854. Halle 1854, p. 100 .
- ^ Justice Ministerialblatt for Prussian legislation and administration of justice. 16th year (1854), Berlin 1854, p. 293.
- ^ Website of the Leipzig University Archives: University History / People / Doctoral Books / Leipzig Honorary Title ( Memento from February 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 12, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolff, Wolf von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wolff, Harald Artur Wolf von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, lawyer and Senate President at the Reich Court |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Over there |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 1900 |
| Place of death | Berlin |